Chapter 953: A Dangerous Place?
“We’re all going to die?” Charlotte said, grabbing her own shoulders as a shiver went through her body, urging her to turn back.
She had to get out of here; it couldn’t be a coincidence, not when her life was already on the line.
“Wait, sister!” the little boy said, sucking his thumb. “It’s okay… the woman is… the woman is… her brain, not 100 percent?”
The little boy turned to Sunder, who had jumped out of bed and patted the kid on the head.
“He means that Tithiny there has gone through a lot. She has good and bad spells, and right now she’s going through a bad one. She has her own story as to how she ended up here,” Sunder said. “As do I,” he added, pointing to his own eye.
“My name is Harper,” the little boy said, pointing proudly to his chest.
Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief, and being able to talk to the others settled her down a little. Bending down to Harper’s eye level, she smiled.
“It’s nice to meet you, I’m Charlotte.”
Sunder introduced himself and then went on to introduce the other two in the room. The man in the back wasn’t much of a talker; his name was Byon.
Byon gave a brief wave before staring back out the window, and Sunder advised it was best to try speaking with Tithiny later, as it wasn’t a good time right now.
Eventually, Charlotte started talking with little Harper and Sunder, picking a bed next to the two of them. They talked about the church and how long they had been there.
Harper was just a kid who had lost his parents, an orphan wandering the streets until the church took him in. Currently, the religion was trying to find someone willing to adopt him, as they didn’t have an orphanage in town, and it wasn’t the kind of place one was meant to stay long-term.
“Wait, why can’t they just look after Harper until he’s older? I mean, they say they take people in all the time,” Charlotte asked.
“That’s because of the program they have. Actually, people come in and out of this place weekly,” Sunder explained. “I’m meant to leave in two days myself.
“The religion doesn’t give us money, but they give us food, a place to eat and stay. But if a person’s been here a month, they hand them enough coin to last another month outside and tell us to be on our way.
“They say that we can come back, but only after a month. I think it’s something to make us less reliant on this place. I’m a bit scared and nervous at the same time.”
Charlotte found it strange. After all, what could a little boy like Harper do, and Sunder was just a teenager? They were practically kicking them out after taking them in.
It didn’t make complete sense to her, but at least they were helping in some ways rather than ignoring everything outside.
The more prominent thought on her mind was that she only had a month or so here. Maybe, in that time, she could gather strength and things would change.
As the day went on, Sunder and Harper took Charlotte to the canteen where food was served. They ate together, and Sunder even gave some of his food to Charlotte.
It wasn’t enough to fill her, so she felt a bit embarrassed, but Sunder insisted he was full.
“Sister, take mine!” Harper said, handing over half of his bun. “Harper’s small, small stomach already filled with food. You need to eat!”
When she looked down at her wrists, she realized how thin she had become, and maybe that was why they were giving her extra food.
This feeling was nice compared to the things she saw as an agent of Alter and the harshness of Pagna. The religion and this place had a comforting vibe, and she could see why people wanted to give back in the future.
Finally feeling she was in a safe environment, when night fell, she went to sleep almost instantly. She was more worn out than ever, and even the sound of rain hitting the window wasn’t enough to wake her up.
Harper, however, was having trouble falling asleep. Rubbing his eyes, the little boy got up and jumped down from his bed.
He quietly moved across the room, opened the door, and headed to the bathroom. After finishing, he aimed to just head back to bed and try to get more sleep.
“Charlotte was so happy today when I gave her food… maybe I should get some more!” Harper thought.
He turned around and decided to head to the kitchen. He spotted a basket of bread left out, but it was out of his reach.
So he pulled a chair over and started to climb, eventually grabbing a few pieces of bread. With a smile on his face, he walked out of the kitchen, ready to head back to the room again. When he entered the hall a second time, he heard something strange.
“Is it from outside?” Harper thought.
He followed the strange muffled noises, and when he got closer, he realized they were coming from the staircase-the one that led downstairs.
“Harper doesn’t like this… it’s too scary… I want to go back now!” Harper whispered as he turned, only to bump into a soft piece of cloth.
“Harper!” Carl said with a smile. “What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be asleep?”
Harper felt embarrassed, realizing he had taken food from the kitchen when he wasn’t
supposed to.
Seeing this, Carl began to tut.
“You know, Harper, it’s not good to take things that aren’t yours. Bad people need to be punished.”
Carl lifted his leg and forcefully kicked Harper straight in the stomach.
Harper’s legs lifted off the ground, and the bread he was holding scattered across the floor.
Harper could only see the smile on Carl’s face as he fell into darkness, his pieces of bread left scattered on the floor.
Chapter 954: The Rylon Religions Secret
The beaming sun through the curtains landed on Charlotte’s face, warming it slightly. She lifted her hand, scratching her cheek, with her leg out from the sheets, and slowly opened her eyes.
Her body felt more tired than when she went to sleep, which just went to show how much her body needed to catch up on, how rough it had been for her.
“Hey!” Sunder called out. “You’re finally awake, don’t worry much, we were all like that when we first came here, it just goes to show that you’re like the rest of us, which makes us feel more comfortable.”
Looking in the room, Charlotte realized that all of the others had left, apart from Sunder, the teenage boy. He then turned around and when he looked at Charlotte he rubbed his eyes a few times.
“Am I seeing things, but has your hair changed colour? Is it orange now? It’s brightening up the whole room!” Sunder said.
Charlotte quickly grabbed her hair, and even pulled out a single strand, seeing the orange colour.
“Oh no!” she thought, as she quickly cast her magic, and right in front of Sunder’s eyes, he saw her hair change from orange to black.
“What the… what the… are you a Wi-!”
Charlotte leapt from her bed and jumped right on top of Sunder. The two wrestled for a bit until eventually Charlotte was on top of Sunder, having pinned him down, and having her hands covering his mouth.
“I’m not a witch, but you said it yourself, right? We all have our things, our secrets that we’re running from… and I like it here, I like all of you guys, so please don’t say anything about this, okay?” Charlotte pleaded, her eyes were watering.
All of the tension had practically left Sunder’s voice, as he realized even if this woman could change her hair colour, she was still just like them after all, so raising his hand he gave a thumbs up, and slowly Charlotte lifted her hands from his mouth.
“I won’t ask you about what I just saw,” Sunder said. “But I’m finding it hard to breathe, can you get off me.”
Embarrassed, Charlotte quickly stood up and folded her arms. Trying to change the subject, she brought up something else.
“Where is everyone, where did they go?” Charlotte asked.
“It’s pretty late, it’s 10 am, I thought you might want to have breakfast together. After all, tomorrow, I’m not going to be here anymore.”
That was right, Charlotte remembered Sunder saying that he would have been here a month, and that was when the Church claimed it was time for them to go.
The two headed to get some breakfast, and after eating they continued in the limited areas, but that’s when Charlotte noticed something: there was one person she hadn’t seen.
“Where’s little Harper?” Charlotte asked, already wondering if she could squeeze his cute little cheeks. She was too shy on the first day since they hardly knew each other, but Harper was such a sweet boy she was sure that he wouldn’t mind.
“Oh, I asked Carl about that; he said that they found someone to adopt Harper, so he’s no longer here,” Sunder replied.
Charlotte looked around; currently the two of them had wandered outside, and were just walking on the gravel pathways outside the church. But there were still staff walking to and from the main town covered in orange clothing.
“Wait, when would that have happened?” Charlotte asked. “He was sleeping with us in the middle of the night; did they find someone this morning then?”
“I guess, I didn’t actually get to see him, but it’s good he’s with a family now anyway; we should be happy for him,” Sunder replied.
“But adoption is no easy thing, someone would just come in the morning and take him, and on top of that, weren’t you and Harper close? Wouldn’t he even come to say goodbye to us? I understand not me, but what about the others?” Charlotte asked.
“We weren’t close,” Sunder replied. “You have to remember I’ve been here the longest; Harper was here for an even shorter time. It would be hard to develop that big of a bond, and he’s a kid, so they see shiny things and run toward them.”
“So I’m not that bothered about it. I can tell why you’re worried though, with me going tomorrow, and Harper gone. You’re going to be left with the other two, but don’t worry I’m sure there will be more at some point.” Sunder smiled.
Charlotte gave a smile back but the moment she looked away she couldn’t get the thought out of her head that it was so strange, but maybe Sunder was the one that was right. Maybe her life and being part of Alter had made her just overly suspicious of everything. For the rest of the day she was unable to keep her guard up, and when she had met with Carl in the church and asked him about Harper, he had given the same answer as Sunder had. Charlotte tried to dive deeper, asking if she was able to meet him and go to see him, but the Rylon religion claimed that they didn’t hand out information like that, as they had to do right by the people that wished to adopt him.
She understood, but still everything felt so strange to her. With that hint of suspicion, everything started to look suspicious to her after.
Which led her to head into the town where she had first been approached by Carl. Returning here, she was on guard once again, but thankfully Sunder had decided to come with her as
well.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been here,” Sunder said.
“You mean you don’t leave the church ever? It’s not against the rules, so why not?” Charlotte asked.
“Because I have no money, there’s no reason for me to head out; what can we buy, what can we get? It’s just useless at that point, and I’m mostly focused on recovery as well,” Sunder said, tensing his bicep and showing relatively well developed.
In the end, Charlotte had decided to go around, and she had a specific question in mind. Something that was bugging her. Something so generous, why hadn’t she heard about it
before?
Being part of Alter, they had a vast amount of knowledge at their hands, so she continued to ask, and each person they approached said the same thing.
It was then that even Sunder started to get nervous.
“Why do you keep asking people if they know about the Rylon religion and their program?” Sunder asked with a shaky voice.
It was then that Charlotte saw an old man, a beggar on the corner; she knelt down and asked the same thing.
“Hey, we don’t have any money, but we do know that the church just out of town, the Rylon religion, can give you food, shelter, and coin. Did you know about this?”
The old beggar wafted his hand.
“I have heard of it.”
It was the first person who had answered this way.
“But when I went there, they turned me away, saying that it wasn’t something that they did. They gave me some water, but that was it. I went back a second time, but they refused to even
give me water.”
“For someone like me, it’s too far a journey to go just for water.”
Sunder, hearing the answer, and hearing all the answers from before, was starting to shake slightly. Even he felt something was up.
Chapter 955: The Real Raze’s Life
Both Sunder and Charlotte continued to walk through the village. They didn’t continue their line of questioning, and eventually when they had reached an open area where kids were playing, chasing wooden wheels and spinning tops on the floor, Sunder couldn’t take it anymore.
“Wait, what’s going on? Can you explain to me why you were asking all of the questions before?” Sunder asked.
“I told you, I thought it was strange that Harper would just go like that. Do you know I asked the others in the room, and not a single one of them saw him in the morning; just how early did these adoption people come and get him this morning?” Charlotte asked. “There was a man that told me, if things don’t make sense then start asking questions.”
“And if they still don’t make sense then ask even more questions. If things start to get more confusing, then it means something is being hidden.”
The words of a person that was quite close to her, it had stung her heart. She had followed him for a long time, and now it was time for her to take over.
“I asked the same question to all of those people out there, because I thought it was strange. People know orphanages exist, people know food houses exist in bigger areas. So such a place, or a thing like the Rylon religion is doing, shouldn’t more people know about it?”
“Yet not a single person in this village, town, whatever it is, has heard about their goodness. Heck, you heard that beggar, they had even refused to bring him in. So let me ask you another question, were you approached by Carl himself?” Charlotte asked.
Sunder paused for a moment. He was almost afraid to answer the question even though he had no idea where it was coming from.
“No,” Sunder answered. “But, I did get approached by another member of the Rylon religion.”
“Then let me ask again, what about everyone else? Did they find out about this, or were they approached by members from the religion?”
Sunder’s eyes widened, but he quickly shook his head and swung his arm out.
“That doesn’t matter. I mean it makes sense that they are just picking people that they want to help out, those that really need it like me or you?”
“That makes sense, but you arrived at the church and there were others before you, yet everyone you met the same way?” Charlotte said. “And if those people got out, then where are they right now? Didn’t they all come from this town? Wouldn’t they have spread the word of what the group was doing?”
“Did anyone ever return to that place?” It was then that Charlotte started to choke up, as she started to think of the worst. “Will we ever see Harper again?”
At that point, Sunder could no longer deny it. Something was strange and he had felt it for a while now. He fell to his knees, and started to sob into his forearm. Eventually he looked up at Charlotte.
“Charlotte… tomorrow is the day, it’s the day I’m meant to leave, what does that mean, what’s going to happen to me?”
There was part of Sunder thinking that they should run now. They didn’t have to go back to the church but then what would they do? Who would he rely on? In his head, he felt like if something went wrong he could always go back, but what was he to do now.
“I’m going to help you, and if we can, we’re going to help Harper. You saw what I did today, right.” Charlotte then swirled her finger in the direction of one of the spinning tops on the ground.
Wind picked up and started to cause the spinning top to move faster. Controlling the wind, she controlled the direction making it zig and zag across the floor.
The kids in amazement started to cheer as they chased the spinning top, and eventually she had spread her fingers out putting it to a stop and the spinning top stopping completely.
“I have powers, and I can use them to help you, so don’t worry, we can do this.”
The two of them returned to the church, and tried to pretend that everything was the same. It was all normal, and they spent the rest of the day there as normal. Charlotte conserved her strength, knowing full well what she might have to do.
Then finally the next day had arrived. Sunder had all of his things packed in a leather backpack handed to him by the church. Carl was in the room, and had handed over a pouch filled with coins.
“Everything in there will allow you to survive on your own. The Rylon Religion wishes for everyone to be self-reliant, but if you do struggle and the month is over, there will always be a place back for you.” Carl tapped Sunder on the shoulder, and then asked everyone to see him off.
Everyone gave him a hug, even Tiffany whose head was back to normal for a moment, and just before Sunder left the room, he gave a nod to Charlotte.
In the vast land of the Dark Faction, three individuals were riding in a carriage heading to a particular town. It had been a while since it was just them three traveling together.
“Hey, so Liam, you got to pick up your weight, you know Raze won’t be here to save us if we’re in trouble again,” Simyon said.
“What do you mean, I was the one that read that thing, without me we would have known nothing. What’s good having a lightning rock teleporting all over the place!” Liam said.
Eventually, as they traveled, Simyon had asked Safa a question, one that he was curious about for a while now.
“What was Raze like, the real Raze I mean, your brother,” Simyon asked.
Safa smiled as she started to reminisce.
“He was kind-hearted but troublesome at the same time. He wanted what was best for everyone and tried to help in his own ways, but he was young. I remember one time, he got into an argument with our mum and dad.”
“There wasn’t enough food for us. In the end, he decided to run away from home for a while. When I think about it, I think he did that for us, because he knew that four mouths was too much to feed, and I could eat more. That’s the type of person he was.”
“Ran away from home, as a teenager?” Liam said. “I mean, he did a good thing and all, but how did he even manage to survive himself with no food?”
“That is the question… I don’t know. Now that I think about it, it was after he came back, things were slightly strange.”
Chapter 956: Illegal Substances Here?
It was time for Sunder to leave the Church, the Rylon religion. He saw Carl step to the side allowing him to walk out of the place. He had already said his goodbyes to everyone, yet now several thoughts were filling his head.
His legs weren’t moving because he was worried; why hadn’t anyone returned to the Church after leaving? Why did no one know about the Church’s good deeds and what about that old man?
The thing was, that wasn’t the worst of what they had found out. Through investigating a little more before leaving the city, there had been a case where someone missing had returned to their family, and the entire family had lost their lives.
‘If I leave this place, will I lose my life?’ Sunder thought.
“What’s wrong,” Carl said, placing his hand on Sunder’s back. All the times before, the smile on Carl’s face and his touch felt warm, yet for the first time it felt cold, very, very cold.
“I’ll take him to the front, I think he’s just going to miss this place,” Charlotte said as she grabbed Sunder’s hand and led him to the front.
Several of the church members followed so they couldn’t say much, but Charlotte gave a nod in Sunder’s direction. He gulped and finally he moved forward, walking away from the church and heading down toward the town.
He continued following the path, until he could no longer see the church as he was walking slightly uphill. The village was quite a distance away, maybe three kilometers of walking.
It felt like a short walk yesterday but now it felt so far.
‘I don’t even have a family to go to, so will they even wait for me to head back, for me to even enjoy a few days before they arrive?’
It was then when looking up on the path, Sunder could see someone dressed in all black in front of him. It was a robe that even covered his face, something that thieves in Pagna would often wear.
Never before, while walking this path, or while the others walked, had they heard of such a thing happening. Yet he tried to ignore it and continue to move forward. Closer and closer, his heart felt like it was ready to jump out of his throat.
Until he was about to cross paths with the man, and then he continued past him, and the man dressed in black had continued past him.
Immediately after, the man turned around, a string of wire in his hands, and immediately Sunder had turned around with a knife in his hands. He swung it, hitting the wire in the center. The strong wire didn’t break, but he had stopped it from wrapping around his neck.
“What’s this… this is the first time someone has resisted, at least someone so young!” the man said, with a crazed look in his eye.
The thing was, Sunder knew he wouldn’t win in a battle of strength, so he eventually let go of the knife and decided to make a run for it.
He ran ahead and continued to run, until traveling right in front of him were two men in yellow-colored robes.
“Sir Klein and Sir Gold! Both of you looked after me, why are you doing this, why!” Sunder shouted.
Knowing how fast they had moved, it was quite clear that they were Pagna warriors, or at least people that knew how to use Qi. Sunder had no chance against these two, and he had no more weapons.
He fell to his knees feeling hopeless at that moment.
“I didn’t want to believe it, I didn’t want to believe it… I thought you really cared about us.”
The two men in yellow robes were moving forward and the man dressed in black was moving from behind.
“Why would you do this, did you do the same to Harper?” Sunder asked.
“Harper… it wasn’t his time,” Sir Klein answered. “But he saw too much. We truly were looking for a family to adopt him; if they did, it would have sped up our process.”
It was then that Sunder rubbed his tears.
“Thank you for answering, because I don’t care what happens to you anymore, I hope you and the rest of the Rylon religion burn!” Sunder shouted.
The man dressed in black felt a large gust of wind hit him in the stomach, forcing him to the floor. Right after, two tunnels of flames came out hitting both of the men dressed in yellow.
The twisting flames hit their bodies and using their Qi, they had to deflect the flames, forcing them onto the ground. Part of their clothing and arms were burnt.
And now, appearing by Sunder’s side, was Charlotte.
“I told you they were up to no good. But out of respect for you, I decided to do it your way. You found out the truth, I’ll do everything I can to protect you.”
The original men dived in again, and Charlotte quickly pointed out her hands and small fireballs fired out from them. The yellow men used their Qi to hit the flames, but it burnt the skin on their knuckles and embers hit the rest of their bodies.
Not just that, but the fireballs coming out from Charlotte were continuous, aiming at all three of them. Eventually, the man dressed in black had cleanly been hit, and his clothes lit up in
fire.
The fire started to grow and the man began to scream in pain.
The two members in yellow looked at each other at that moment.
“A mage.”
“A strong mage at that. If we capture her, won’t that help us out greatly?”
“Right, right, no one would know, even if she is part of Alter.”
Charlotte was shocked by the words she was hearing and wondering just what was going on with the whole religion.
At that point, both of the men pulled out a small orange glowing large pill. It was the same length as a finger, and glowing bright with a yellow-like glow to it.
Immediately the two men took the pills and consumed them on the spot.
“What did they just take!” Sunder asked, worried at how confident the two were.
“That’s… I’ve seen those before… in Alterian, they were considered illegal substances… why do they have them, and they’re meant for mages, not warriors.”
Chapter 957: A powerful Weapon
A particular place had been selected by the trio of travelers, a small city that was located on the border between the Demonic Faction and the Dark Faction. The reason for picking this place was quite simple.
One, it was quite close and was an area that they would have to pass through if they wanted to head to the Dark Faction anyway. As for the second reason, it was all because of Liam’s information gathering.
According to him, one of the places where the strange deaths had occurred was this particular city, a place where the Lethal Bite Clan once was and still was. According to the report, Raze had also been a part of the mission here.
Which made them wonder if anything was found. There were many instances where the three of them were away from Raze, and they didn’t really know what he had been up to, other than the reports that would come from the Golden News once in a while.
When they entered the town, it didn’t take long for them to ask for a meeting with the current mayor and head of the Lethal Bite Clan, Harbour, who was also Lisa’s brother, the previous head of the Lethal Bite Clan.
Due to their positions in the academy, and the fateful day when Raze had taken his position on the stage, Safa and the others’ presence had become well known throughout the academy.
They had entered the old Lethal Bite Clan base that was positioned on top of a giant staircase, and made their way into one of the meeting rooms where Harbour was sitting behind a rectangular table.
He wasn’t the only one present, as there were three more individuals there.
“You’re Bargo, from the Moon Shield Clan, right?” Liam asked as his system was the one that actually notified him. He also was a person that had turned sides and helped them face the rest of the Dark Faction.
“I am indeed. I frequently visit this city, and when I heard that you were coming, I felt like I had no choice but to greet you as well,” Bargo said.
Their heads then turned to the third person in the room, as they were unsure about who this individual was.
“I’m Graft,” the man introduced himself. “I’m from Alter… or at least I would like to say I was from Alter.”
Safa and the others were on guard immediately. It wasn’t so long ago that they had been tasked with getting rid of all of those from Alter in the Dark Faction, so they wondered if this was a setup of some kind.
With two clan leaders in the room as well, it wouldn’t be an easy task if there were more of them.
“Calm down, Raze knows both of these individuals,” Harbour explained. “Besides, Graft had helped Raze quite a bit in the past, and his squad are good friends with Himmy and his group. They are ready to give whatever information is needed.”
“Which is why I have given them a safe place to rest. I’m sure Raze will be grateful, and you are free to report to him about this matter whenever you wish.”
Harbour also would have received the order about eliminating the Alter clans, and Graft and his squad would have been placed in a tricky situation. They didn’t have much choice to pick sides and they had eventually picked the current side.
“Actually, it might be good that he is here as well,” Safa stated. “We wanted to ask you, according to our information, Himmy and his squad were tasked with a special investigation in this town. To locate an unknown group of deaths that had appeared here, do you know what happened?”
Bargo and Harbour looked at each other; they knew the full extent of the entire report well, and Bargo was there in person to see it all.
“Right, I remember reading those files,” Graft replied. “I believe what had happened was another Alter group was investigating and ended up being killed as well. Himmy and his group were chosen to investigate just in case it was related to their case.”
“Ah, so that’s what brought them here,” Harbour added. “Things are making some sense. I’ll give you what information I know but I don’t know if it will help you much. One of the elders within the Lethal Bite Clan was conducting particular experiments.”
“They were sacrificing people to summon something, and in the end it appeared as if the summoning had succeeded. I don’t quite know what or who, or what happened, but Raze seemed to deal with it.”
Safa was a bit disappointed by the answer. The first place they had arrived, had they already hit a dead end? Was it actually unrelated to all of the other cases after all?
“However, I did look into things a bit more. You see, it turns out that the elder of the Lethal Bite Clan had a particular weapon with him. A powerful weapon that would allow him to heal. It was a glowing sword with this beaming energy.”
“The man was almost unkillable, but Raze dealt with him again.”
“Smoking balls,” Liam said. “How many things did Raze go through, and doesn’t that weapon sound like Safa’s weapon as well, the one she has?”
“That weapon, I learned, actually belonged to a group that was here—the Rylon Religion, the church. They had ordered several Wanderers to get the weapon back from Raze, but he had dealt with them swiftly as well.”
“After I had learned of this, I asked all of the members to leave this town. I couldn’t find out what their link was with the elder of the Lethal Bite Clan, but the Rylon religion is a large organization covering the entirety of the Dark Faction, so getting them to leave was the best thing I could do,” Harbour explained.
Although the case at first seemed unrelated, once again, the same link that Liam had found had appeared-the group known as the Rylon religion. Safa eventually pulled the spear out from her back that was wrapped in cloth, and revealed it.
The eyes of Harbour and Bargo were glued as they saw it.
“It has the same glow,” Bargo said. “The energy coming off it even feels the same.”
“What was the name of the sword that Raze used?” Safa asked.
“I believe he called it the Lux Sword,” Harbour answered.
Safa was sure of it now, the weapon that Raze had received was the weapon she was using in
her hands right now. It was an incredibly powerful weapon.
“So it’s the same weapon then,” Liam said, and the others had overheard him. “But that weapon is mega powerful, I understand if a clan or Alter had something like this, but how did a religion have something like this in their hands, and why?”
Chapter 958: Finding out the Truth of Everything
The trio had listened to Raze’s story in a bit more detail from Harbour and the others. They learned of his great feat of even repelling one of the Demonic Faction Clans that had attacked the place.
Which in turn had later been the reason why the town of Flendon was left abandoned in the first place. It was interesting for all of them to hear what Raze had done, and just like their experience of him, sometimes he sounded like a hero, while other times he sounded like a villain, it just depended which side one was on.
After that, they had obtained information on where the closest Rylon Church was. In a nearby medium-sized town, that wasn’t too far.
“You won’t need to worry about the clan there,” Bargo said. “They will listen to you before they listen to the Church even if they are a big organization. It’s just the clans never want to deal with that stuff and sometimes they seem a bit crazy.”
“Also, there’s the rules of civilians and warriors not meant to get involved with each other.” The three of them looked at each other nervously, knowing full well that Raze had taken out an entire kingdom. It was surprising that there was still no fallout from all of that.
Was it just a rumor about Divine beings descending from the sky for doing such a thing, and the kingdom itself had kept it under wraps, which was understandable.
With that information, the three of them were off, and due to how close the town was, they had decided to walk on foot rather than take a carriage.
Currently, they were walking through a forest talking about what was ahead.
“Safa, I was wondering if there is a reason you think Raze wanted to give that device to Anna, and not want the rest of us to get involved, because I feel like things might start to get troublesome,” Liam asked.
“I’m not sure,” Safa replied. “We know Raze has bigger issues to deal with, and for me, I feel like this is more a personal matter to begin with. It might be linked with why Raze had gone into the body of my brother.”
“And, I want to find out the truth of what my brother was involved in himself. Maybe Raze asked Anna to do this, because he too wants to find out what is bothering him.”
Safa was thinking about the strange aura she felt surrounding Raze back then. At one point it had even protected her, but why, what was it? How was it even linked to all of this, and the people that at one point had been after her and Raze’s life.
“Oh oh oh look at what we have here!” A man had dropped right in front of their path. A man with next to no clothes covering his chest with a big sword being held over his shoulder, and he wasn’t alone either.
Behind him there was a group of at least six people, and looking left and right, they could tell there were several in the trees as well.
“Come on!” Simyon said. “Bandits… really… I thought we were done with this.”
“Three practically children are traveling on their own with no escort whatsoever,” the head bandit said. “And it looks like you guys have some fancy equipment and some fat pouches with you.”
“Should we just chop off his balls?” Liam asked, looking at the others.
“What so you can keep them as a trophy? Seriously man, I think you should see a therapist about your balls obsession, is it because you don’t have any yourself?”
Safa sighed as the usual spat between Simyon and Liam had started again. This was the problem with traveling with the usual three.
“Are you seriously ignoring me now, a bunch of kids, I guess you have no idea how cruel this world can be!” The head bandit said, swinging his sword from the side, ready to strike all of them.
Until a metal clang sound was heard. The bandit had to blink twice as he didn’t understand what was happening at all. He could see that one of the dark-skinned children had just lifted his hand and it was blocking the sword completely.
“You really tried to kill us,” Simyon said as he reached towards the beads on his neck. Lightning from his glove started to emit, and then from the beads it linked to his earrings and his whole body was lighting up with blue lightning.
Simyon quickly moved from his position and pounded the head bandit right in the stomach. While he was in the middle of flying through the air, Simyon quickly went to all of the others and hit them with his fist.
Simple attacks caused bones to break, and the shock from his body caused them to fly far into the distance.
Simyon had dealt with the large group quickly, and when he turned around, he could see that Liam had also dealt with those that were in the trees.
His swords were floating above his back, and grabbing one he threw it at the tree hitting a person right in the chest and causing them to fall onto the floor.
“That’s the last of them,” Liam said.
“Right, I didn’t think we would have to deal with things like that anymore, but I guess we don’t have a name for ourselves like that of the Dark Magus,” Simyon said.
“Ohh good point!” Liam said. “Why don’t we come up with some nicknames to spread our name.”
Safa walked past the bandits, and looked behind Liam and Simyon, seeing what they had just done. Maybe they didn’t realize it, but they were incredibly strong.
The bandits were Pagna warriors, and they had dealt with them just like that with no trouble at all. With them always trying to catch up to Raze all the time, they felt like they were weak but it wasn’t the case at all.
She had to remind herself that it was all of them that were stalling Sha Mo for as long as possible. However, Safa herself had done nothing just then.
Her powers with the spear and Light magic allowed her to heal the others from afar. She was fine with this because she thought she could still help Raze this way, using the power to help
him.
But seeing how Liam and Simyon had just performed, maybe she could use Light magic more offensively.
‘The spear that I got was from the Rylon Religion. If they have items like this, then maybe there’s a chance that they have more things that I can use as well.’
Looking straight ahead, as they exited the forest and stood atop a hill, they could see the town below, and a church located in the city. She was ready to find out the answers about her real brother, how Raze came to this world, the death of her family, and all about the bloody woman that followed them.
